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I think we need Malcolm for that one Jude !!!.................

Dea x

I've trawled page after page after page to no avail...off out into the garden now!

Malcolm - help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jude

When you come back from the garden Jude, where in India were they based please?

Quick interlude (chopping for the savoury rice)

1st Bn Northumberland Fusiliers Rawalpindi Punjab

1st Bn Durham light Infantry Nasirabad Rajputana

Jude

Goodness, being out of the country with the Armed Forces would never have entered my mind. Lateral thinking obviously isn't my thing ! I'll have a dig around too re the India scenario. Thanks for the idea.

Familysearch have the 1911 overseas census military records - and I'm not seeing him anywhere, let alone the two locations supplied by Jude.

Maybe he was lodging with someone and got "dittoed" on the last name. I did try to look for a Richard Corby (first names) just in case.

I had a similar problem looking for my grandmother´s brother in 1911.
Had all his details, baptism etc. Tried every combination of names I could think of.
The children had been orphaned in 1907. Found the married one & the four in care without much problem. Knew from his army records that this one should be in a sanatorium in Dover, but no sign.
Eventually found him. Exactly the details I had entered & exactly where I expected him to be.
When I looked at the original I realised that his place of birth hadn´t been entered. I of course had been putting it in the search details.
Yippee.
Only one sibling left to find now!!!!

1911 (Find My Past)
First name(s) Harry
Last name Carr
Marital condition Single
Gender Male
Age 26
Birth year 1885
Birth place Hornsea Yorks
Address West Ridge Rawalpindi
County Overseas Military
Country Ships And Overseas Establishments
Enumeration district 3
Census reference RG14
Census reference RG14PN34987 RD641 SD12 ED3 SN9999
Piece number 34987

(not much help here Folks, but above Man is 1st Northld. Fusiliers, found by google, not sure if Richard is on any images, above looks to be surnames C)

Chris :)

Yes, Wisechild know the problem only too well!

I only thought he may have been in the military earlier than WW1 because of his rank, but no trace of a Corby in India in 1911. However, looking at it a lance-sergeant is only a corporal "acting up" - and it would not take too much to go from a private to a corporal, then to acting sergeant especially when there were so many deaths. So maybe I've gone with the red-herring ;-)

All I can say is a tremendous thank you to all who have tried their best to find this houdini of a man. I think I will have to accept that he has either disappeared into thin air or failed to be recorded on the census for one reason or another. He was a miner so could have been 'down the mine' at the time of the census and the folk he was living with just didn't include him on their return. Anything is possible. Thanks again everyone.

Margaret, you are welcome - we all like a "chase".

Just wondering aloud (well in writing) I wonder if we should look more at the Canadian immigration record supplied earlier in the thread?

My reasoning behind this, some of my ancestors went to Canada around the same time, some were miners some stonemasons. There were adverts in local newspapers for the trades, and promises of riches and a good life. It didn't turn out that way.

Most of mine (but not all) came back after a short time (stonemasons couldn't work in the Canadian winter!) and the riches promised did not materialise for most of the miners - and they ended up in boarding houses/camps. One of my miners came back, served in WW1, got married and cleared off to Aus, but ultimately settled in NZ.

Just a thought :-)